loandigger

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by loandigger 3y ago
Signing the 900 lb. Gorilla, eh? We did too. We were a $250k ARR legacy app when we were introduced to our 900 lb. Gorilla. A Fortune 10 Financial Services company. We signed them (for +$1M/yr, 5 yr min) and then lived the dream, then
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by loandigger 3y ago
Halfway between 'golfing' and 'drinking' is 'bowling'. Genius!
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by loandigger 4y ago
I just retired after a 28 year career in mortgage technology. Here is my take: First, modern mortgage origination is a scale business based upon quantitative processes that depend upon collecting data of very poor quality to measure the pas
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by loandigger 4y ago
Electric RVs with level 5 self driving. Everyone talks about Teslas for self driving, but for my self driving car, I want an RV with a shower, a desk, a full kitchen, a queen sized bed and a 50" flat panel. Commuting then becomes a ple
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by loandigger 4y ago
Keep this in mind: In a large organization, NO SINGLE PERSON makes a decision. It's THE PROCESS that makes the decision. And THE PROCESS takes time. One of the greatest skills you can learn at a large organization is identifying, bypas
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by loandigger 4y ago
From a traditional Dev perspective, blockchain programming can seem really weird. No decimals, no patches or point upgrades to deployed smart contracts (for the most part anyway), constructor event only gets called once during deploy, code
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by loandigger 5y ago
The thing you need to adjust to is this unfortunate truth: At large companies, NO ONE makes decisions anymore. It's the PROCESS that makes the decisions. And the Process takes a lot more time than you are accustomed to. This will not c
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by loandigger 5y ago
What a slanted load of BS. No matter your politics, all Americans can agree on 3 things: 1) Cutting in line is wrong; 2) People who shoot bald eagles are real a-holes; 3) the 2 industries that that get more expensive every year while provi
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by loandigger 6y ago
Asshole design on sifted, can't read the article without joining.
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by loandigger 6y ago
https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1320xkhl0443w/naked-short...
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by loandigger 6y ago
http://counterfeitingstock.com/CS2.0/CounterfeitingStock.htm...
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by loandigger 6y ago
Normally, when you short a share, your broker has to go find somebody who already owns it and they "borrow" it from there and allow you to "sell" it short. But if you can believe this, the very, very largest Wall Street
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by loandigger 6y ago
read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. In the near future, Home Owners Associations in the US (assisted by AI managers and horrifically powerful robotic armed guards) form their own "countries", with their own legal code,
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by loandigger 6y ago
The dual slit experiment. Run the experiment with no one watching it, it produces result A. Run it again and watch it, it produces result B. Watching the experiment changes the result. WTF????
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by loandigger 8y ago
Rule of Thumb #1 : The closer you are to affecting the marginal profitability of the company, the more you make. e.g. Updating actuarial tables on a 20 yr old insurance system = low pay. Using ML/AI to re-build the actuarial tables int
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by loandigger 8y ago
Hiring for a programmer position, It's January and it's the coldest day of winter, down in the low single digits. The candidate is a 40-something man with a pretty good resume for the slot. I start off with small talk.. "Wow,
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by loandigger 8y ago
Yes, three. One was a total failure. One went public a few years after i left and the last one was a private sale by me to a Fortune 500 company. I'm not saying my rule of thumb is for everyone, but 900 hours is about the length of an
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by loandigger 8y ago
You're probably not falling out of love with coding. You're falling out of love with having to unremember a lot of the things you've learned and replace them with new, unfamiliar things that many times, contradict what you al
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by loandigger 8y ago
900 hours. That's my rule. It takes 900 hours of concentrated effort in brainstorming, building, tweaking, disillusionment, trashing it all, starting over, brainstorming some more, building, tweaking, demoing, networking and THEN selli
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by loandigger 8y ago
Don't confuse Sales with Marketing and don't confuse Marketing with Advertising. If you have correctly defined your market, correctly segmented your sub-markets, correctly defined your distribution & customer acquisition chann
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by loandigger 8y ago
yes. It'll be like hsx.com, but for felons.
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by loandigger 8y ago
A betting site offering over/under wagers on the number of people from the Trump administration who are indicted in the coming years.